1 DECEMBER 1979, Page 19

Sticking to the facts

Sir: 'There are things', Raymond Chandler wrote, 'that are facts, in a statistical sense, on paper, on a tape recorder, in evidence. And there are things that are facts because they have to be facts, because nothing makes any sense otherwise.'

I suspect that there are many who have, despite the obfuscatory statements, a fairly good idea of what happened on that one night at Chappaquiddick ten years ago. Brian Pate

Wymondham Road, Wreningham, Norwich